英语单词 | initiate |
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英美音标 | 英 [ɪ'nɪʃieɪt] 美 [ɪ'nɪʃieɪt] |
中文释义 | vt.开始;创始;启蒙;介绍加入 n.创始人 adj.新加入的;启蒙的 |
英语例句 | (1) The company initiated a management training program for small businesses. (2) I shall initiate you into our business methods. (3) My father wanted to initiate me into fishing. (4) The club will initiate a new group of members on Tuesday. |
中文例句 | (1) 该公司发起了针对小企业的管理培训方案。 (2) 我将把我们的营业方法介绍给你。 (3) 我爸爸想教我钓鱼。 (4) 该俱乐部将于星期二接纳一批新成员。 |
vocabulary简明 | If you press the red button, you'll activate weapons of mass destruction and initiate a global war. As a verb, initiate means to start. As a noun, initiate (short "a") means to be part of a group. |
vocabulary扩展 | Initiate is a tricky little devil because you pronounce the last bit one way as a verb (i-ni-she-ate) and another when it's a noun (i-in-she-at). If you're an initiate, you've been introduced to a field of study, an activity, etc. You can be a novice or a veteran. To initiate is to begin, pioneer, or broach a topic. You might say, "Let's initiate the swearing-in ceremony so our new initiates can join the Rule-Breakers' Club and still get home without missing their curfews." |
柯林斯解释 | The verb is pronounced /ɪ'nɪʃieɪt/. The noun is pronounced /ɪ'nɪʃiət/. 动词读作 /ɪ'nɪʃieɪt/。名词读作 /ɪ'nɪʃiət/。 1 [VERB 动词]开始;创始;发起 If you initiate something, you start it or cause it to happen. [V n]
2 [VERB 动词]使初步了解;向…传授基本技巧(或基础知识) If you initiate someone into something, you introduce them to a particular skill or type of knowledge and teach them about it. [V n [Also V n]
3 [VERB 动词](通过仪式)接纳,使加入 If someone is initiated into something such as a religion, secret society, or social group, they become a member of it by taking part in ceremonies at which they learn its special knowledge or customs. [ [V n [Also V n]
4 [N-COUNT 可数名词]有初步知识的成员;新入会的人 An initiate is a person who has been accepted as a member by a particular group or club and been taught its secrets and skills. [oft N
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